President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will seek a new five-year term in a presidential election set for October 6, officials said Thursday. After Musharraf signaled his plan to resign as army chief if re-elected, the Election Commission announced that the ballot by federal and provincial lawmakers would be held October 6. Sadique Al-Farooq, a leader of the opposition party of exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif, said the party would pull its lawmakers from federal and provincial assemblies immediately if the Election Commission accepts Musharraf's nomination papers, the Associated Press reported.
